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Show 698 MESSRS. G. W. AND E. G. PECKHAM ON [Nov. 2l, four in a transverse row across the anterior part and two on each side, farther back. Tbe two middle spots of the transverse band are frequently joined together. There are some red hairs around the eyes of the first row, and the front faces of the first legs; the palpi and the falces are all covered with snow-white rice-like scales, so that the spider presents a very showy appearance from in front. The legs are brown with a good many white scales, the first pair being darker coloured than the others. The female has the integument of the cephalothorax dark brown, while that of the abdomen is commonly yellowish. The whole surface is covered with white scale-like hairs, excepting that on the abdomen there are eight black spots, four in a transverse row across the middle of the dorsum and two on each side, farther back. The legs are yellowish. The clypeus is covered with rather long white hairs, which hang down a little way over the falces. The general appearance of this species is much like that of Bendryphantes capitatus, Hentz. It seems to be very common in St. Vincent. HASARIUS PAYKULLI, Aud. in Sav. Descr. de I'Egypte, 2e edit. xxii. p. 172. A cosmopolitan species. CYRENE, gen. nov. The cephalothorax is only moderately high ; from its highest point, at the dorsal eyes, it falls forward to the first row of eyes and backward for about two-thirds of the length of the thoracic part, the forward inclination being a little more pronounced than the backward. The final fall to the posterior border is steep. The sides are nearly vertical and parallel in the cephalic part, but are a good deal rounded out in the thoracic, the widest point being considerably behind the dorsal eyes. The quadrangle of the eyes is equally wide in front and behind, is barely one-fourth wider than long, and occupies two-fifths of the cephalothorax. The first row of eyes is straight, the middle eyes being about twice as large as the lateral and close together, while the lateral are a little separated from them. The second row is halfway between the first and the third row. The dorsal eyes are about as large as the lateral, and form a row which is nearly as wide as the cephalothorax at that place. This genus is close to Mcevia, but the cephalothorax has a more rectangular appearance, the lower edge being almost straight. CYRENE DECORATA, sp. nov. (Plate LXII. figs. 6-6 b.) 2 • Length 5-8. Length of cephalothorax 2*2; width of cephalothorax P 4 . ; Legs 4, 3,1, 2, nearly equally stout, the femoral joints of the first and second being a little thickened. The clypeus is one-fourth as high as the middle eyes of the first row. The falces are moderately long and stout, vertical and |
